This publishing house, born in the wake of the Parisian bookstore of the same name, claims to be populist and patriot. His manager, François Bousquet, defends “the great 86 -year -old writer” despite accusations of pedocrime.
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It is a Parisian bookstore that is easy to recognize among those in rue de Médicis, its storefront is fractured by a dozen impacts. Because of these bursts, few books are exhibited: my itinerary (Editions Chora), by the far -right manager and president of the Italian council Giorgia Meloni, London (Gallimard), last unpublished by Céline, a work by Renaud Camus, The ideologist who popularized the theory of “great replacement”, according to which there is a plan to replace Westerners with mass immigration …
Open in 2018, the new bookstore, which also became a publishing house a year later, claims to be identity and patriot. She was attacked just before a signature session of Eric Zemmour in 2018, then in 2019, on the eve of the ex-president of the National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen. Its manager, François Bousquet, loves spectacular dedications and resounding outings. He was to publish on November 8, written before the massacre, whose author, Gabriel Matzneff, is targeted by an investigation for rape on minor.
The controversy started very quickly in the press and on social networks: on October 22, the feminist collective Les Grenades stuck posters on the bookstore to denounce the release of the book. In a statement released on Monday 24 in the morning, editions said they had awarded: “We are obliged to repel Sine Die the publication of the last writings before the massacre”, due to “death threats” on the staff.
In a café in the neighborhood, a few days earlier, François Bousquet, 54, thin glasses and peak beards, nevertheless used big words: “Publish Matzneff who could no longer be, that is a question of ‘Honor of the edition. He is a great 86 -year -old writer, dragged into the mud. “Former publisher, in the 1990s, at the age of man, who published a large number of dissidents of the East, Bousquet met Matzneff there and shares with him the same passion for Russia and Slavic literature.
Several months ago, the writer offered him, through common friends, the idea of the book, which brings together his chronicles published in the point from 2015 to 2019. On ten pages, Gabriel Matzneff also returned to consent, a book in which Vanessa Springora recounts the relationship under control she had with him, when she was barely 14 years old and he 50. “He said he did not read the Book, he does not try to understand, and I say that without wanting to overwhelm Matzneff “, observes the publisher. Nowhere is the fact that the writer is the subject of a judicial investigation. “It is not my kind of beauty, pedophilia, says Bousquet. But sliding a warning to condemn pedocrime is a way of taking distance with a publication, a form of hypocrisy.”
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